Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Paul Walter Hauser | ... | Richard Jewell | |
Sam Rockwell | ... | Watson Bryant | |
Brandon Stanley | ... | Student | |
Ryan Boz | ... | Student | |
Charles Green | ... | Dr. W. Ray Cleere | |
Olivia Wilde | ... | Kathy Scruggs | |
Mike Pniewski | ... | Brandon Walker | |
Jon Hamm | ... | Tom Shaw | |
Ian Gomez | ... | Dan Bennet | |
Nina Arianda | ... | Nadya Light | |
Kathy Bates | ... | Bobi Jewell | |
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Ronnie Allen | ... | Kenny Rogers Impersonator |
David Lengel | ... | Cameraman | |
Beth Keener | ... | Pregnant Woman | |
Grant Roberts | ... | Will Jones - APD |
Based on the true story of Richard Jewell, a security guard who discovered a bomb and saving many lives at concert at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He was seen as a hero by many and a suspect by the FBI and press.
Any "normal person" who has ever been involved as the subject of a targeted media story can tell you reporters can be monsters. Never an apology, rarely a correction, they just move on the the next story leaving a wake of destruction.